When The Mind Has Once Begun To Yield To The Weakness Of Superstition, Trifles Impress It With The Force Of Conviction.
- Ann Radcliffe
Poverty Cannot Deprive Us Of Many Consolations. It Cannot Rob Us Of The Affection We Have For Each Other, Or Degrade Us In Our Own Opinion, Of In That Of Any Person, Whose Opinion We Ought To Value.
It Is Dismal Coming Home, When There Is Nobody To Welcome One!
When One Can Hear People Moving, One Does Not So Much Mind, About One’s Fears.
Employment Is The Surest Antidote To Sorrow.
Such Is The Inconsistency Of Real Love, That It Is Always Awake To Suspicion, However Unreasonable; Always Requiring New Assurances From The Object Of Its Interest.
There Is Some Comfort In Dying Surrounded By One’s Children.
Happiness Arises In A State Of Peace, Not Of Tumult.
The Refreshing Pleasure From The First View Of Nature, After The Pain Of Illness, And The Confinement Of A Sick-Chamber, Is Above The Conceptions, As Well As The Descriptions, Of Those In Health.
What Are Riches – Grandeur – Health Itself, To The Luxury Of A Pure Conscience, The Health Of The Soul; – And What The Sufferings Of Poverty, Disappointment, Despair – To The Anguish Of An Afflicted One!
Though The Vicious Can Sometimes Pour Affliction Upon The Good, Their Power Is Transient And Their Punishment Certain; And That Innocence, Though Oppressed By Injustice, Shall, Supported By Patience, Finally Triumph Over Misfortune!
What Has A Man’s Face To Do With His Character? Can A Man Of Good Character Help Having A Disagreeable Face?
I Never Trust People’s Assertions, I Always Judge Of Them By Their Actions.
If The Weak Hand, That Has Recorded This Tale, Has, By Its Scenes, Beguiled The Mourner Of One Hour Of Sorrow, Or, By Its Moral, Taught Him To Sustain It – The Effort, However Humble, Has Not Been Vain, Nor Is The Writer Unrewarded.
There Is Some Magic In Wealth, Which Can Thus Make Persons Pay Their Court To It, When It Does Not Even Benefit Themselves. How Strange It Is, That A Fool Or Knave, With Riches, Should Be Treated With More Respect By The World, Than A Good Man, Or A Wise Man In Poverty!
I Tasted Too What Was Called The Sweet Of Revenge – But It Was Transient, It Expired Even With The Object, That Provoked It.
A Well-Informed Mind Is The Best Security Against The Contagion Of Folly And Of Vice. The Vacant Mind Is Ever On The Watch For Relief, And Ready To Plunge Into Error, To Escape From The Languor Of Idleness.
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